A story you'd read again. Write which scene does it.
What's your favorite story? Which part did you like?
Everyone gets the same subject. What differs is the follow-up: one question for children, two for teens, three for adults. Only the children's wording is simplified.
Skip it and start at the second. The opening writes itself once the rest exists.
Delete every line anyone could have written. What is left is yours.
Pick one. A single idea taken all the way beats ten touched lightly.
'Thing' hides the real word. Name it.
'Three years' always beats 'a long time'.
Lose them in line one and the rest never happens.